Product Description: Nancy Mairs’ audio CD, _Essays Out Loud_, features two essays written a few years apart and read aloud by the author. Mair's "On Having Adventures" and "A Necessary End" deal with issues of joy, disability, and death; written from the perspective of a severely disabled person with multiple sclerosis, a recent convert to Catholicism, and a wife and mother...read more
9781888553178 | Kore Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Nancy Mairs’ audio CD, _Essays Out Loud_, features two essays written a few years apart and read aloud by the author.
Product Description: When Nancy Mairs published her spiritual autobiography Ordinary Time, Kathleen Norris greeted it in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable accomplishment,” calling Mairs a relentlessly physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual development...read more
9780807077320 | Beacon Pr, September 3, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Passionately nonconformist spiritual reflections from an acclaimed essayist When Nancy Mairs published her spiritual autobiography” Ordinary Time, Kathleen Norris greeted it in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable accomplishment,” calling Mairs a relentlessly physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual development.
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9780807077337 | Beacon Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When Nancy Mairs published her spiritual autobiography Ordinary Time, Kathleen Norris greeted it in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable accomplishment,” calling Mairs a relentlessly physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual development.
9780807098820 | Beacon Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Passionately nonconformist spiritual reflections from an acclaimed essayist When Nancy Mairs published her spiritual autobiography” Ordinary Time, Kathleen Norris greeted it in the New York Times Book Review as a remarkable accomplishment,” calling Mairs a relentlessly physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual development.
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9780807077443 | Beacon Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $12.95
Product Description: A focused personal and ethical examination of life in the face of death, by one of our most acclaimed essayists"Nancy Mairs writes knowingly, even lovingly, about a subject most of us seek to avoid: death and its essential place in life...read more
9780807062487 | Beacon Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Presents a series of essays surrounding the author's life and her experiences with death, including the sudden death of her father, her mother's lingering illness and death, and her own suicide attempt.
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9780807062494 | Beacon Pr, October 21, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A focused personal and ethical examination of life in the face of death, by one of our most acclaimed essayists"Nancy Mairs writes knowingly, even lovingly, about a subject most of us seek to avoid: death and its essential place in life.
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9780807062425 | Beacon Pr, June 6, 2002, cover price $23.00
Memoirs of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair and considers the ways in which disabilities shape human lives, from daily physical care to travel, sex, and ethics
9780783880990 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1997), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Memoirs of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair and considers the ways in which disabilities shape human lives, from daily physical care to travel, sex, and ethics
9780807070864 | Beacon Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of personal essays makes up the memoirs of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair and considers the ways in which disabilities shape human lives, from daily physical care to travel, sex, and ethics
9780788159985 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: NonfictionLarge Print EditionWith eloquence, passion, and humor, Mairs articulates, in a series of ten essays, the realities of a life consigned to gazing at navels other than my own.
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9780807070871 | Beacon Pr, December 22, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of personal essays makes up the memoirs of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair and considers the ways in which disabilities shape human lives, from daily physical care to travel, sex, and ethics
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9780807070024 | Beacon Pr, January 17, 2001, cover price $20.00
Product Description: Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780807060070 | Beacon Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it.
Product Description: Acclaimed personal writing from one of our most out-spoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opporunities and "gifts" of a difficult life.
9780807070857 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed personal writing from one of our most out-spoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opporunities and "gifts" of a difficult life.
9780060921170 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 1991), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed personal writing from one of our most out-spoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opporunities and "gifts" of a difficult life.
Product Description: Nancy Mairs reconstructs her past by exploring her erotic and emotional development in order to lay claim to her life—and women's lives in general. Lyrical, intense, and particular, flouting taboos and self-censorship, this acclaimed memoir explores the spaces that have shaped a life, including the "bone house" of her body...read more
9780807070697 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Nancy Mairs reconstructs her past by exploring her erotic and emotional development in order to lay claim to her life—and women's lives in general.
9780060916442 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1990), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The author recreates her girlhood, adolescence, and young adulthood as wife and mother, detailing her battles with depression, agoraphobia, and multiple sclerosis
Product Description: A New York Times Notable Book of 1993, this spiritual autobiography of astonishing candor and earthy unsentimentality has something to teach all of us about living. Full of probing intelligence and wry dispassion, Mairs relates her conversion from good-girl spirituality to something much deeper and darker...read more
9780807070567 | Beacon Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author describes the role religious faith has played in her family life, marriage, and struggle against multiple sclerosis
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9780807070574 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, August 30, 1994), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A New York Times Notable Book of 1993, this spiritual autobiography of astonishing candor and earthy unsentimentality has something to teach all of us about living.
Essays discuss the transforming power of literature, the challenges of biography, and the writings of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker
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9780807060063 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the transforming power of literature, the challenges of biography, and the writings of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker
Product Description: "The difficulties and despairs through which she has passed have left Nancy Mairs with unique and moving stories to convey, as well as with a strong voice to tell them." New York Times Book Review "These striking essays by Nancy Mairs are so touching and heartbreakingly honest that one often has to put the book down and rest emotionally before reading on...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780816513376 | Reprint edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "The difficulties and despairs through which she has passed have left Nancy Mairs with unique and moving stories to convey, as well as with a strong voice to tell them.
9780060970949 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1987, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss adventure, handicaps, depression, science, masculine behavior, parenthood, human sexuality, agoraphobia, and women's role in society
Essays discuss adventure, handicaps, depression, science, masculine behavior, parenthood, human sexuality, agoraphobia, and women's role in society
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9780816508921 | Univ of Arizona Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss adventure, handicaps, depression, science, masculine behavior, parenthood, human sexuality, agoraphobia, and women's role in society